Track Listing

1. In the Good Old Summertime
2. Blue Bell
3. In the Evening by the Moonlight
4. Down Where the Silv'ry Mohawk Flows
5. How'd You Like to Spoon with Me? - Corrine Morgan
6. Rainbow
7. Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet
8. By the Light of the Silvery Moon
9. I'll Make a Ring Around Rosie
10. Casey Jones - American Quartet
11. Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine - American Quartet, Ada Jones
12. Oh, You Beautiful Doll - American Quartet
13. Moonlight Bay - American Quartet
14. It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary - American Quartet
15. When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose - American Quartet
16. Chinatown, My Chinatown - American Quartet
17. On the 5:15 - American Quartet
18. Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! - American Quartet
19. Over There - American Quartet
20. Silver Bell - Peerless Quartet
21. I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad - Peerless Quartet
22. Everybody's Doin' It Now - Peerless Quartet
23. Sweet Adeline (You're the Flower of My Heart) - Peerless Quartet
24. I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier - Peerless Quartet
25. My Bird of Paradise - Peerless Quartet
26. My Sunny Tennessee - Peerless Quartet
27. Lights of My Home Town - Peerless Quartet

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #67212 in Music
• Released on: 2006-11-07
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Compilation

Album Details
Vocal Quartets were Very Popular in the Pioneering Early Days of the Gramaphone. Three Quartets Dominated the Era: The Haydn, the American and the Peerless. Between Them, They Notched Up 236 Record Hits! Today They Are Largely Forgotten, Yet So Many of the Songs They Introduced Are Still with Us. "in the Good Old Summertime" Uniquely Showcases this Aural Slice of History. The First Nine Tracks Are by the Haydn Quartet, Including Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet (Top for 11 Weeks) and by the Light of the Silvery Moon (9 Weeks). The Foursome Included Such Individual Stars as Baritone Reinald Werrenrath (50 Solo Hits) and Lead Tenor Harry Macdonough (99 Solo Hits), who was Later Replaced by the Greatest Star of the Age Billy Murray. Murray also Sang Tenor with the American Quartet, Among Whose 10 Hit Tracks Here is the Decade’s Greatest Smash, the Two Million-selling Casey Jones. Members also Included Baritone Steve Porter (13 Solo Hits) and Tenor John Young (10).